I suspect what he is asking for has been and is happening currently. They know it is illegal and they do it anyway and are pushing for this to retroactively cover their asses.

This is the hardware manufacturer implementing Android, not Android itself, that is causing this disgrace.

I've had a G1 with T-Mobile for a year now in Houston, Tx. I've not once had a real issue with 3G. Hell, on a drive from Houston to Dallas or Austin I can tether the thing to my laptop and stream Grooveshark with barely missing a beat, and that is a bit of a rural area between here and there.

Disagree. The "right" and "wrong" here though is so muddied in this situation. He left notes for the admins pointing out the holes. His "wrong" is indeed in the vein of social behavior and not moral behavior, in my opinion. If it was his moral behavior then why would he have left the notes?

Why is the information publicly available? Why would most generic Mac users care to seek it on their own? Should Apple shove it in their face?

Hypocrisy is not something the general public tolerates much. For a company to make well known that phrase "Do no evil" it means they are risking being a hypocrite. It isn't a guarantee, but a promise. Promises can be broken. We have to hold them to it just like anything else someone has promised you.

Well, shit! Looks like you figured it out. Good job!

They should make an algorithm that filters IN tits.

Make it stereoscopic and the security becomes non-trivial.

Jumping is a very common way to die considering cutting wrists and pills means you need privacy for a long time. So yeah, I don't find it significant they chose the same way.

These suicides are well within the statistical expectations for a worker population that large. But People don't care about facts, just emotions.

I fail to even see the "mistake" part of this. In my view nothing wrong was done and their even flinching to this is a sign of their ignorance or malice.

Falsely accusing or indicating someone has committed a criminal act should be grounds for libel or slander.

The cameras are hooked up to a computer. The computer has wifi. The cars have GPS. All of the logs for each of these are synchronized since they are all on the same computer. So if your wifi logging happens to be detailed enough you could definitely "accidentally" collect that data just by having the wifi on with a default of connecting to any open network.

Does anyone know what these computers in the Street View cars were running OS wise? Hardware wise?

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